Re: Unable to compile example program in Windows using MSYS MinGW

[Allin Cottrell <cottrell wfu edu>]

On Thu, 24 May 2018, "Damon H. (TheDcoder)" via gtk-list wrote:

> I am a C beginner and trying to follow "[Getting 
> Started](https://developer.gnome.org/gtk3/stable/gtk-getting-started.html)" 
> chapter from the documentation. I have adapted the first example 
> program and when I compile it on Windows using packages MSYS and the 
> MinGW(w-64?) GCC compiler it doesn't run.
>
> I get two error dialog boxes (one after the other) and then the 
> program exits without showing any GUI. The errors are:
>
> The procedure entry point deflateSetHeader could not be located in 
> the dynamic link library C:\msys64\mingw64\bin\libgio-2.0-0.dll.
>
> The procedure entry point inflateReset2 could not be located in the 
> dynamic link library C:\msys64\mingw64\bin\libpng16-16.dll.

These functions should be provided by zlib. Is that not being linked 
in? (linker flag: -lz)

Allin Cottrell